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The Enzo Files Series

This series follows the adventures of a brilliant but flawed scientist drawn into solving old French cold cases. It masterfully blends whodunit mystery and thrilling investigation with humor and the protagonist's complex personal life. Each case plunges him deeper into the dark secrets of the past, forcing him to use cutting-edge science and keen intuition to uncover the truth. Readers will be captivated by the twists and turns, where forensic expertise clashes with dangerous criminals and deeply buried human emotions.

The Critic
Blowback
Extraordinary people
Freeze Frame
Blacklight Blue
Cast Iron

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  1. 1

    Extraordinary people

    • 400 pages
    • 14 hours of reading
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    As midnight strikes, a man desperately seeking sanctuary flees into a church. The next day, his sudden disappearance will make him famous throughout France. A new science. Forensic expert Enzo Macleod takes a wager to solve the seven most notorious French murders using modern technology - and a total disregard for the justice system. A fresh trail. Deep in the catacombs below the city, he unearths dark clues deliberately set - and as he draws closer to the killer, discovers that he is to be the next victim.

    Extraordinary people
  2. 1

    Výnimoční ľudia

    • 400 pages
    • 14 hours of reading
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    Stará záhada. Moderné technológie. Temné znamenia. Expert Enzo Macleod na stope nevšedného zločinu. Brilantná detektívka z pera Petra Maya, jedného z najoceňovanejších autorov súčasnosti. Píše sa august roku 1996 a celý Paríž je šokovaný záhadným zmiznutím jedného z najvýznamnejších francúzskych intelektuálov svojrázneho odborníka na francúzsku kinematografiu Jacquesa Gaillarda. Jediná indícia, ktorú po sebe zanecháva, je tajuplná poznámka v diári na pracovnom stole. Mad a minuit. Koho alebo čo označuje? Polícia je bezradná a vyšetrovanie sa čoskoro ocitá v slepej uličke. Zdá sa, že Gaillardovo zmiznutie zostane navždy zahalené tajomstvom. O desať rokov neskôr Enzo Macleod, bývalý škótsky kriminalista, ktorého osud zavial do francúzskeho Cahors, prijíma výzvu priateľov a podujme sa vyriešiť zabudnutý Gaillardov prípad. Hľadanie pravdy, spočiatku motivované najmä túžbou vyhrať stávku, Macleoda čoskoro úplne pohltí. Otrasné zistenia, ku ktorým dospeje, okamžite zaujmú aj vyššie politické kruhy, čím sa však Enzov život i celé vyšetrovanie značne skomplikuje.

    Výnimoční ľudia
  3. 2

    The Critic

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    Three years ago the body of France's foremost wine critic was found strung up like a scarecrow in a Gaillac vineyard, dressed in the ceremonial robes of the Order of the Divine Bottle and pickled in wine. For ex-pat Scot and forensic forager Enzo Macleod, the answer to this unsolved murder lies in cracking the critic's secretly coded reviews - which on publication could make or break a vineyard's reputation. He finds that under the sweet idyll of southern French winery lurks a bitter, back-stabbing community - including several suspects for the critic's death.

    The Critic
  4. 3

    Blacklight Blue

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    Enzo Macleod is facing a death sentence. Having been diagnosed with a terminal illness, time is running out to solve the most confounding of unsolved murders in France. But as he begins investigating the death of a rent-boy in a Parisian apartment, he suddenly finds himself under arrest. Someone is threatening to destroy his character. Someone is trying to frame him for murder. If he can use his genius for forensics to crack the cold case, he might dodge one fatal blow before another strikes.

    Blacklight Blue
  5. 4

    Freeze Frame

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    On one tiny island, many hidden secrets - that Enzo Macleod must uncover to crack the fourth of France's most notorious unsolved murder cases. Ile de Groix, France. A Frozen Island. This tiny isle off the coast of Brittany is the scene of a murder left shrouded in mystery and grief. A Frozen Crime. Adam Killian's study has been left intact since his death - the perfect state for Enzo Macleod's forensic investigation. A Frozen Heart. Killian's widow is still hoping; the first suspect is still hiding; and the treacherous island itself still has a revelation for Enzo.

    Freeze Frame
  6. 5

    Blowback

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    Puy-de-Dome, France A Silenced Man Footprints in the snow lead to the murder scene of Marc Fraysse, France's most celebrated chef - brutally shot before he could make the revelation of his career. A Determined Man Seven years on and the mystery still raw, Enzo Macleod, forensic investigator, forays into the heated world of haute cuisine to uncover bitter feuds and a burning secret. A Hunted Man The Fraysse family history is as twisted Enzo's own. And in his pursuit of truth, the depths of deceit threaten to consume Enzo - and that which he cherishes most.

    Blowback
  7. 6

    Cast Iron

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    In 1989, a killer dumped the body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin into a picturesque lake in the West of France. Fourteen years later, during a summer heatwave, a drought exposed her remains. No one was ever convicted of her murder. But now, forensic expert Enzo Macleod is reviewing, this stone-cold case - the toughest of those he been challenged to solve. Yet when Enzo finds a flaw in the original evidence surrounding Lucie's murder, he opens a dangerous Pandora's box : placing him and his entire family in peril.

    Cast Iron
  8. 7

    The Night Gate

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    "In a sleepy French village, the body of a man shot through the head is disinterred by the roots of a fallen tree. A week later a famous art critic is viciously murdered in a nearby house. The deaths occurred more than seventy years apart. Asked by a colleague to inspect the site of the former, forensics expert Enzo Macleod quickly finds himself embroiled in the investigation of the latter. Two extraordinary narratives are set in train - one historical, unfolding in the treacherous wartime years of Occupied France; the other contemporary, set in the autumn of 2020 as France re-enters Covid lockdown. And Enzo's investigations reveal an unexpected link between the murders - the Mona Lisa.Tasked by the exiled General Charles de Gaulle to keep the world's most famous painting out of Nazi hands after the fall of France in 1940, 28-year-old Georgette Pignal finds herself swept along by the tide of history. Following in the wake of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa as it is moved from château to château by the Louvre, she finds herself just one step ahead of two German art experts sent to steal it for rival patrons - Hitler and Göring.What none of them know is that the Louvre itself has taken exceptional measures to keep the painting safe, unwittingly setting in train a fatal sequence of events extending over seven decades. Events that have led to both killings."--Publisher

    The Night Gate